About Saturday Books
My Name is Francis Sheppard. I have run bookstores in Dudley, a former industrial town in the West Midlands of England, for fourteen years now. There have been three locations. The previous, a spreading second floor above an old warehouse, I occupied for ten years. Since November 2024 I have been tenant in a much more high-street kind of shop unit, with a view over Dudley's single Victorian square. The change, as you can imagine, was an upheaval. We didn't do so well with our Abebooks inventory, and the result is I am redoing it all. I apologise to all those whose orders I missed. I would have loved to have given you better service. With luck this will be a new start.
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Tel: +44 1384 226992
Specialty:British and Irish Fiction, Maritime, Special Educational Needs, Rare Books, Travel, Health, US and Commonwealth Fiction, Psychology, Religious Thought, Canals, Self-Help, Languages, Railways, History, Drama, Aviation., Poetry, Music, Fiction in Translation, Fine Art, Second World War, Philosophy
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My name is Francis Sheppard. Saturday Books was started six years ago.
Ongoing work has been the restoration of the interior of a mid-nineteenth-century building, originally three town houses, part of which is now warehouse and offices.
Saturday Books has space at ground level, which houses Literature, popular philosophy and the arcane - paperback reading to be found immediately on the second floor. Up there, there is a Coffee Room, where serious browsers may want to take a pile of books for an afternoon of reading.
Down the corridor are rooms full of Natural History, Maritime, Flight, Motor Transport, Railways, Canals, Travel, First and Second World Wars, European and Colonial History, Battles, Craft, Gardening and Cookery, then finally Poetry, Drama, Music, Religious Thought and Art.
Much of the trade is carried out online, but Saturday Books' purpose is to serve the West Midlands region. What is sold in the shop is heavily discounted against Amazon and Abebooks counterparts. Up to Lockdown, a poetry scene flourished on Saturdays in the top floor Coffee Room. Saturday Books wants to be at the hert of the local community!
So make the journey over. The building is cold so you need layers, even unseasonally, but you will be given a warm welcome. Come home with an armful of books, and tell your friends that literary life does still go on in the locality,
Information regarding the right of cancellation
If you are a consumer you can cancel the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
INFORMATION REGARDING THE RIGHT OF CANCELLATION
Statutory Right to cancel
You have the right to cancel this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The cancellation period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right to cancel, you must inform us, Saturday Books, 61 Tower Street, DY1 1ND, Dudley, United Kingdom, +44 79771-62201, of your decision to cancel this contract by a clear statement (e.g. a letter sent by post, fax or e-mail). You may use the attached model cancellation form, but it is not obligatory. You can also electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". If you use this option, we will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a cancellation on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the cancellation deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right to cancel before the cancellation period has expired.
Effects of cancellation
If you cancel this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to cancel with contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to us or Saturday Books, 61 Tower Street, DY1 1ND, Dudley, United Kingdom, +44 79771-62201, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your cancellation from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of cancellation
The right of cancellation does not apply to:
- the delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- the supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not cancel it once delivery had started.
Model withdrawal form
(complete and return this form only if you wish to withdraw from the contract)
To: (Saturday Books, 61 Tower Street, DY1 1ND, Dudley, United Kingdom, +44 79771-62201)
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